How To Use Cumbria In A Sentence
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Their solution was to have Cumbria fire service just out of shot squirting hosepipes high in the air so it would fall the right way on Hopkins who was standing looking miserable up to his thighs in the lake.
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But now the Cumbrians are enjoying a new lease of life in their refurbished ground and are currently second.
The Sun
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Two Cumbria police workers were arrested for data protection breaches and misconduct in a public office.
The Sun
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Schools throughout Cumbria had to be closed after sustaining damage to building fabric.
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Cabbages and cauliflowers have to go from Jubilee Allotment gardens, Kendal, so the Cumbria Education Department can raise a crop of healthy children.
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Sustained rain and ferocious winds caused severe weather conditions across Cumbria overnight on Friday, some of the worst the region has seen for decades.
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But now the Cumbrians are enjoying a new lease of life in their refurbished ground and are currently second.
The Sun
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Beyond it, the Cumbrian mountains rear, an impenetrable barrier.
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Who would bet against Penrith not overtaking Aspatria next season as Cumbria's Number Two club?
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At his junior seminary in Cumbria, the outwardly pious enforced a regime of physical and sexual abuse.
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Whatever the historical provenance of the Cumberland sausage, it soon became a well established feature on the household menu in Cumbria.
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And where else in Cumbria can you raise a glass of perfectly chilled dry white wine from Transylvania?
The Sun
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The article challenges the statement by the Cumbrian Area Health Authority that local leukaemia rates do not significantly differ from national rates.
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Cumbrian gamekeepers and stalkers have embraced Government plans to scrap archaic laws stopping the sale of game all year round.
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Whipping up enthusiasm at the Rural Forum as well as a delicious damson syllabub was Cumbrian chef and local food historian John Crouch.
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But now the Cumbrians are enjoying a new lease of life in their refurbished ground and are currently second.
The Sun
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Both clubs and the police are urging away fans not to buy tickets for the home area for the game which will be policed by officers from Cumbria as well as local bobbies.
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Selected teams from all six local authority areas in Cumbria come together on one day for a competitive festival of sport.
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And where else in Cumbria can you raise a glass of perfectly chilled dry white wine from Transylvania?
The Sun
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So thinks Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, the New Scotland Yard man looking into a wealthy Cumbrian family's private deeds and secrets in the latest Lynley chronicle from Elizabeth George.
In Brief: Mysteries
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Mortality from asthma in people aged under 65 seems to be about 40% higher in Norfolk than in Cumbria or Hertfordshire.
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the solid prosperity of Britannia was never securely extended north of the Humber, where the Cumbrian mountains and Pennine chain harboured disruptive local tribes.
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Virtual Cumbria, which offers complete 360 x 360 degree views of 150 of the county's most picturesque landscapes and honeypots, went online on Monday.
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Summer: in the south west of France for the May half term; at the uplifting madness that was the Secret Garden Festival please note my boyfriend's chequer board haircut which seemed like an inspired idea after a few cocktails; driving up the M11 and being dazzled by the fields of rapeseed coming into bloom; in Cumbria for our summer holidays, bird spotting with the binoculars.
Where I was 2008
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Photographers are being challenged to link past and present in a prize competition organised by Cumbria County Council.
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Fears that bottled water could be responsible for thousands of cases of food poisoning should not affect business for Cumbrian water bottlers.
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One of Cumbria's most famous sons is highlighting the plight of the region's threatened farmland birds.
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Meanwhile Siward died, and the matter rested for a few years, Malcolm reigning as King of Cumbria, and Macbeth occupying the Scottish throne.
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Details of current road closures can be found on Cumbria County Council's website: www. cumbria.gov.uk, Cumbria Highways hotline: 0845 609
Evening Mail news round-up
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The fear of running into one of these Cumbrian ale aficionados, supping on mysterious-smelling brews of porridgy so-called real ale amid background tones of chronic bronchitis, keeps many people away.
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This reassurance gap is a national phenomenon, which is very much apparent in Cumbria.
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Relative sea-level graphs based on onshore data in the Cumbria area do not show such a substantial relative fall, but roughly agree on the timing.
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Ista tua Carmina Chamouniana satis grandia esse mihi constat; sed hoc mihi nonnihil displicet, quòd in iis illae montium Grisosonum inter se responsiones totidem reboant anglice, _God, God_, haud aliter atque temet audivi tuas monies Cumbrianas resonare docentes, _Tod, Tod_, nempe
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
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Donald, he says, was a huge character, driving round Cumbria in fast cars and the only person to hold both Water and Land Speed Records at the same time.
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The spirit of the Whitehall farce is demonstrated in an incident ten days ago when a Cumbrian farmer was about to witness eight slaughtermen start to destroy his sheep flock.
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I have already mentioned the reality orientation objective of the Cumbria project.
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MY heart goes out to the people in the Cumbrian towns whose property and belongings have been ruined by the floods.
The Sun
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There's maybe someone in Cumbria running a small nuclear power plant in their garden shed.
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The Carlisle News & Star ran the false story on page four, while the Cumbrian Gazette splashed the news on their front page.
Did King Olav V of Norway really take a trip to Selhurst Park?
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Allithwaite, which lies to the west of Grange, north of Kents Bank, is also close to picturesque Humphrey Head, the tallest limestone cliff in Cumbria.
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He and his brother Rob were inspirational and they led, spiritually, a lot of those training sessions because they would turn up covered in straw, sweat, mud and goodness knows what else, and they would flog themselves in every training session, and then go back to the farm" – Paul Cullen following the death of Garry Purdham, whom he coached at Whitehaven, in the Cumbrian shootings.
My Super League awards show
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One in every ten Cumbrian businesses said skill shortages made it hard to fill job vacancies, the study revealed.
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If the government is determined to appoint regional assemblies, Cumbria should become a region in its own right.
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A legal wrangle over a three-year-old unpaid bill for dealing with the foot-and-mouth cull has cost Cumbria's tax payers around half-a-million pounds.
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An ordinary cabdriver, a West Cumbrian Homer Simpson, who in fact had worked at and been fired from the Calder Hall reactor, one morning got up and shot his twin brother, his lawyer, and killed twelve people before shooting himself.
How the End Begins
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Without them Cumbria would be like the North East during the devastating unemployment of the early nineties.
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Ulverston Ladies Hockey Club can look back upon a memorable season, having achieved the double of winning both the Netherwood and Cumbria leagues.
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Gateshead could again be without influential skipper and central midfield orchestrater Kris Gate (ankle), who was hugely-impressive on The Heed's last visit to South Cumbria.
Evening Mail news round-up
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Clearly a cohort analysis of this and other areas in southwest Cumbria is urgently required.
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The competition is open to non-members of Cumbria Tourist Board as well as members.
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A story in the Westmoreland Gazette, a Cumbrian local paper, has become a hot favourite on the Internet:
Media
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Four men were killed when a runaway rail wagon crashed into a group of workers on the West Coast Main Line at Tebay in Cumbria.
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The pre-emptive cull of healthy animals in Cumbria is not happening at the pace the government intended.
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Machinery figured largely in Cumbria and Wester Ross reflecting no doubt the distance from repair facilities.
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A quick look at just the top of the League One table – Brighton, Southampton, Bournemouth – must be enough to bring out the book-balancing officials of the Cumbrian club in a cold sweat.
Torquay United 1-0 Carlisle United | FA Cup third-round match report
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The Bridleway - a horsy Pennine Way - will, when it is completed, stretch 350 miles from Middleton Top in Derbyshire, through Lancashire, the Yorkshire Dales and Cumbria, to Northumberland.
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It was raining heavily but downpours are a routine feature of life in Cumbria.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cumbria dairymen continued direct action at milk processing plants this week in pursuit of a better farmgate price for milk.
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Earth-walled buildings such as Devon cob, Lincolnshire mud-and-stud and Cumbria clay buildings are very rare and also extremely friable and susceptible to damage.
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Richard Uridge trundles round the Eden Valley in Cumbria in a vintage red bus with Will Hamer, its driver, and his daughter Alison Morris, who's the conductress.
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It is the handiwork of Marc Guibert, head chef at Lindeth Howe Country House Hotel in Windermere, Cumbria, and is being launched for National Chocolate Week, starting today.
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Bruce Jones, Cumbria's former County Archivist, has found documentary evidence of turf roofs in the lease of a four room burgage in Scotch Street, Carlisle, dated 1589, although the lease also mentions slates.
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He wrote several verses in their honour, and even requested that after his death a lesser celandine should be carved on his memorial plaque at the church of St Oswald in the Cumbrian village of Grasmere.
The power of spring flowers
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The ‘little taste of Cumbria’ prepared by John Kay included smoked salmon, duck, and chipolatas.
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I had a faint hope that the heat would remove that obnoxious weed ragwort from the roadsides of Cumbria.
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At 978 metres (3209 feet), Scafell Pike is the highest mountain in England. It is located in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria.
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South Cumbrian dairy farmers are young, thrusting and ambitious, according to a new survey that flies in the face of gloomy industry forecasts.
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The Cumbrian police spokesman said the death was not being treated as suspicious and the coroner had been informed.
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Blackbirds, starlings, green finches, great tits, robins, collared doves and dunnocks are all included in Cumbria's top ten.
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Party members in Cumbria have already spurned the union activist he picked for the seat.
The Sun
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A Cumbria Tourist Board survey showed that 59 percent of the visitors mentioned the scenery as the main attraction of the area.
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Nearly every show in Cumbria has classes for foxhounds and terriers which shows the importance that hunting holds in the agricultural and village communities.
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In Cumbria we have a total of between 20 and 22 lakes and tarns.
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The aim of the by-laws is to protect populations of rare fish, including vendace, schelly and arctic charr, which live in Cumbria's lakes.
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Spokesman for Cumbria Constabulary Mike Head warned that lake waters could be dangerously deceptive.
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While the footway is the responsibility of Cumbria County Council, the work was carried out by a contractor working on behalf of Copeland Borough Council, so they have been asked to alter the gradient to make it less steep for wheelchair users and parents with prams etc so the barriers can be removed. ''
Whitehaven News headlines
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And where else in Cumbria can you raise a glass of perfectly chilled dry white wine from Transylvania?
The Sun
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The two latest suspected cases were disclosed a day after it emerged a slaughterman in north Cumbria was undergoing tests for the disease.
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Traffic hold-ups reached a peak on Thursday when Cumbria police dispatched officers after receiving calls reporting ‘complete gridlock’.
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Cumbria's biggest renderer has this week put an £8 price ticket on picking up calf carcasses as the price for their skins continues to linger below the £4 mark.
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Roast chump of Cumbrian Fellbred Lamb is served sliced on pesto mash and a ratatouille jus.
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The geography of Cumbria, appealing though it is to tourists and landscape painters, is not conducive to assembling a rugby team for midweek winter practice, though we salute the commitment of those who travel furthest.
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Cumbria's most popular tourist attraction has a new man at the helm and is looking to steer a course towards future growth.
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The bottle of Lakeland Air is the latest natty marketing ploy from Cumbria Tourist Board to encourage stressed-out city-dwellers to the area.
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Details emerging last week of the Cumbria tragedy bore that conclusion out.
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In Cumbrian dialect the sailplane pilots known as the "rock polishers" who fly over the Lake District might be termed as "leet as a fedder feather".
Country diary: Grasmere, Lake District
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To match its youthful programme, Festival Director, Alex Greenwood, has been working with students at Cumbria Institute of the Arts to give the event's publicity a restyle.
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A remote Cumbrian farmhouse which provided the backdrop for the cult British film Withnail and I has been put up for auction with a guide price of £145,000.
Withnail and I' farmhouse goes up for sale
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Headteachers and schools were contacted by Cumbrian health and education leaders last week at the start of the new term asking them to encourage staff and children to adopt improved hand hygiene methods to help prevent the spread of bugs.
News round-up
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Work is still ongoing to defuel and decommission Chapelcross, which continues to employ hundreds of people from Dumfriesshire and north Cumbria.
News round-up
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The veterinary charity, the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals, wants people in Cumbria to take the Challenge of a Lifetime and help to raise funds to treat sick and injured pets.
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A spokesman for Cumbria Police said the don't drink and drive initiative was a year-round message.
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From a copter normally used for maintenance checks on tracks and power lines, officers are patrolling vandalism hot spots in Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside, and Cumbria.
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Our own battalion was predominantly Cumbrian, and the men from the west coast called each other 'marrow', pronounced marra.
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George Romney, English portrait painter, died at Kendal in Cumbria.
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For someone purporting to live in Cumbria he takes a very keen interest in our city…
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Plans have been drawn up to safeguard Cumbria's thriving local meat industry from being strangled by bureaucracy.
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Whipping up enthusiasm at the Rural Forum as well as a delicious damson syllabub was Cumbrian chef and local food historian John Crouch.
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About 70 people took part in a workshop led by Zumba Cumbria, who showcased their new dancercise routine, before an afternoon of acoustic music.
Whitehaven News headlines
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So basically, I would say that the only solution I would be satisfied to attempt at the moment is to look at Brythonic/ Old Welsh type names, particularly of the 'Cumbrian' variety used in Strathclyde, then try to make an educated guess at how these names might have been mangled as a northern dialect and possibly gaelicised to some degree as contact with the Irish increased.
Pictish female names
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A probe began today into the deaths of four railway workers killed by a runaway train wagon on the West Coast mainline in Cumbria.
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Unions claim that de-skilling and pay cuts are being imposed by a group of construction firms and have been staging protests at building sites across the UK in recent months, including Sellafield in Cumbria, Grangemouth and Ratcliffe power stations and Blackfriars and King's Cross railway stations in London.
Student tuition fees protests – Wednesday 9 November 2011
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He is now on the hunt for volunteers to act as business mentors to small Cumbrian enterprises.
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A Ministry spokesman said they were now studying the geographical situation, as North Ribblesdale is close to Cumbria, where there have been 691 confirmed cases.
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Not downhearted, the Cumbrians redoubled their efforts.
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A Cumbria Tourist Board survey showed that 59 percent of the visitors mentioned the scenery as the main attraction of the area.
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Cumbria Export Club is dedicating its next meeting to looking at how firms could boost exports by developing more imaginative ideas.
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the solid prosperity of Britannia was never securely extended north of the Humber, where the Cumbrian mountains and Pennine chain harboured disruptive local tribes.
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The previous entry on the London Underground blog is a shot of a sign at Penrith station (in Cumbria).
Humour
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It is one of Cumbria's few evergreen flora of the fells and can be seen all year round.
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Poets came from all points of the compass in Cumbria, north, south, east and west - and also from north Lancashire.
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They are being sold by Manorial Auctioneers of London on behalf of Lord Hothfield, a Cumbrian-based baron whose lineage stretches back to the middle ages.
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Whatever the weather, Cumbria County Council is bound by law to send the snow plough out to clear the highways.
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Endeavour will sail from Whitehaven, Cumbria, on November 8, on a homeward route that will retrace some of Cook's voyages.
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Some of them are in particularly spectacular locations, such as Bird How sleeps four, from £319 per week, a remote fellside cottage above the River Esk in Cumbria, and waterside Quay Cottage, the only holiday cottage on the National Trust-owned Brownsea Island in Poole harbour and already booked up for most of the year.
UK cottages: a guide to leading rental companies
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Their excuse, said Mr Evans, was that they were visiting Cumbria for rabbiting and ferreting - an implausible explanation at a time when people were not allowed on to farmland because of the foot-and-mouth epidemic.
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The Cumbrian floods could give that bill added impetus.
Times, Sunday Times
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Manchester performed worst in the table with 10.4 per cent of council tax going uncollected while Eden in Cumbria came top with just 0.6 per cent.
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In all 34% of this acreage was cut twice - mainly in Cumbria, Leicestershire and parts of Derbyshire.
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Cumbria The millions of visitors who pour into Cumbria from the south and east each year still find a county of unmatched beauty.
A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
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A spirited campaign backed by the likes of Cumbrian mountaineer Chris Bonington had been launched after the hostelling organisation decided to close Dufton's doors to weather its foot-and-mouth losses.
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Party members in Cumbria have already spurned the union activist he picked for the seat.
The Sun
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The overmantel in the Small Drawing-Room at Levens Hall in Cumbria, for example, is supported by a pair of full-length figures, dating from the Tudor period, representing Samson to the left and Hercules to the right of the fireplace.
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The cup, made from solid silver, has been kindly donated to Cumbria Sport, the organisers of the Games, by the Cumbria Playing Fields Association.
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When they fail even briefly – during Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, say, or in Cumbria just last month – we know the consequences.
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So thinks Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, the New Scotland Yard man looking into a wealthy Cumbrian family's private deeds and secrets in the latest Lynley chronicle from Elizabeth George.
In Brief: Mysteries
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Wearing another hat many people around Cumbria will have seen him perform solo or as part of his jazz combo.
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Simon Rogan offers visitors to his Michelin-starred Cumbrian outpost L'Enclume a traditional pond pudding, complete with nettles, dock, bistort, dandelion and a dried nettle crust.
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Cumbria has the unenviable reputation of being the county worst hit by the virus with 877 confirmed outbreaks and more than 1.1 million animals culled in total.
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Postponing plans for a referendum on regional devolution has condemned Cumbria councils to a period of potentially damaging uncertainty.
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Regrettably that means that South Lakeland will be lumbered with staying in a two-tier Cumbria at least until the next time local government reorganisation is forced back to the top of the political agenda.
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At Sellafield in Cumbria, tests have shown that discharges of the radioactive pollutant technetium pumped into the Irish Sea have spread as far as Scandinavia and have entered the food chain.
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He might even appear before some half-wit magistrate in Cumbria or Poole or somewhere and get let out on bail -- same result.
THE SCAR
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The programme will create opportunities for creative web designers within Cumbria.
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This stone circle in Cumbria is an impressive pre historic monument in Britain.
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Families, organisations and schools are being urged to take part in a new award for Cumbria which aims to encourage people of all ages to discover and conserve wild places.
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Hospital records within Cumbria, and in regional referral centers outside Cumbria, were searched to improve ascertainment of stillbirths and infant deaths.
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In another film, The Soul of the Lakes, he journeys between two Cumbrian record shops, looking for soul music.
Artist of the week 107: David Blandy
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We hiked, swam, climbed, potholed, abseiled, ran, jumped, fell in, fell over and camped on most of Yorkshire, Cumbria and Northumberland during my time with the association.
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Cumbria's teenagers are outperforming the national average in new performance tables released this week based on tests for 14-year-olds.
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His mother gave birth to him and his brother in a garage in Cumbria because all the badger setts had been flooded.
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I'm pleased that in Cumbria at least the money is going into a pool, which will be used to alleviate the problems.
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Several eye-witnesses saw Helen Verity, 30, driving "erratically" on a route in west Cumbria.
Whitehaven News headlines
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Cumbria Police said the sheep appeared to have panicked as the men chased it.
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RacoonCam allows surfers to watch the antics of two racoons at a Cumbrian rescue centre, OstrichCam gives a unique view of an ostrich egg incubator as the eggs hatch out.
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Outdoor activities are a key part of the tourism offering in the Lake District and other parts of Cumbria.
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I researched all the farmers' markets and spent time on a rare breed pig farm in Cumbria.
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We hiked, swam, climbed, potholed, abseiled, ran, jumped, fell in, fell over and camped on most of Yorkshire, Cumbria and Northumberland during my time with the association.
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Roast loin of Cumbrian pork with crisp crackling carved over a salad of vine tomatoes, Aegean olives, feta cheese and olive oil.
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Road conditions remained treacherous last night and Cumbria police warned motorists not to drive unless it was absolutely necessary.
Times, Sunday Times
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The focus is on school-leavers from Bury who have attended a three work residential course in Cumbria.
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The town centre market would consist of around ten stands or huts selling roast chestnuts, for example, Cumbrian punch, traditional sausages and pancakes.
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Help to open up an area of peat bog by cutting and burning small trees at Cumbria Wildlife Trust's Foulshaw Moss, near Witherslack, on Saturday.
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The aim of the byelaws is to protect populations of rare fish, including vendace, schelly and arctic charr, which live in Cumbria's lakes.
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Looking forward to spring in Cumbria, summer on Colonsay, and autumn in Camberley.
Reasons to be cheerful
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Alternatively, in Cumbria we are looking for volunteers to help carry out a survey for two unusual rarities - marsh clubmoss and pillwort.
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Lambs are the icons of the rural idyll, the faces that grace a thousand Lake District postcards and the sight that brightens the spirits of even the most jaded commuters as they flash past Cumbrian hills.
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The BBC Radio Cumbria bus attended and the RAFARS was able to make several live inserts on the Saturday morning shows describing the event.
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Cumbrian to the bone, they're good-time lads with a selfless ambition: to spread the fun.
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Technical trials began last week in Cumbria.
Times, Sunday Times
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Three Cumbrian building societies have joined forces to combat cruel fraudsters who prey on the elderly and vulnerable.
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Doctors in West Cumbria health district could recall only seven cases in 14 years.
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By the way, the Geordie brekkie of a stotty cake isn't breakfast to us Cumbrians.
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Meanwhile five cattle imported into Cumbria from France have shown signs of having the contagious disease brucellosis, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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Scientists tackling the thorny problem of a foreign superweed which has invaded Cumbrian riverbanks hope a humble insect could halt its rampage.
News round-up
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The new air ambulance and base will chop crucial minutes off the usual time it would take the Darlington based helicopter to reach Cumbrian casualties.
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With ten years as a paramedic with Cumbria Ambulance Service already under her belt, Mrs Seddon undertook a three-year BSc degree to qualify as an emergency care practitioner.
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If we want Cumbria agriculture to move forward we've got to get our act together sharpish.
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The first autotest of 2010 for West Cumbria Motor Club was on the 22nd February 2010 at the
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Armed with the slogan dreamed up by a pupil at an Egremont secondary, Cumbria County Council's education welfare team has launched a campaign to keep children in the classroom.
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Cumbria Country Council asked Goldsworthy to undertake a major landscape commission in 1996.
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A complex investigation by Cumbria police has led to 13 drivers working for a Northern Ireland haulage firm admitting falsifying their tachograph records.
News round-up
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Their excuse, said Mr Evans, was that they were visiting Cumbria for rabbiting and ferreting - an implausible explanation at a time when people were not allowed on to farmland because of the foot-and-mouth epidemic.
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The Government has directed the Boundary Committee to carry out a review of the current local government structure in Lancashire, Cheshire and Cumbria and to come up with options for change.
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But now the Cumbrians are enjoying a new lease of life in their refurbished ground and are currently second.
The Sun
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On the ground in Cumbria, there is still dispute about the relative merits of the disease control strategies.
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The failure at the Kendal plant also meant that smaller links serving other areas of Cumbria were unable to provide land lines or internet access, he said.
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Their choice has the backing of Cumbria Tourist Board, which has relaunched its daffodil telephone hotline to satisfy people's desire to see great drifts of daffodils growing wild in the Lakes.
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‘Rather than just observing those vessels bypassing our region, we are launching a Cumbria cruise initiative to increase cruise calls to our ports,’ she added.
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Tourism chiefs in Cumbria are bidding to make a big splash in the cruise market by attracting more liners and thousands of extra visitors to the county.
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Mr Greenwood said putting the whole strategy into action would cost £40,000 and it was hoped Cumbria County Council would put some money into the pot.
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The ban - the first to be implemented in Cumbria in 14 years - has seen residents in areas such as Penrith, Keswick and Appleby forced to resort to using watering cans and buckets for their gardens and cars.
News round-up
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On the eve of the event, inspired by childhood visits to the famous Levens Hall in Cumbria, Boston began cutting them into pairs of orbs and crosses and crowns.
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The windy hills of south Cumbria are a natural magnet for wind farm speculators and many such farms are already established.
Times, Sunday Times
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In 1980, an old ash tree in Cumbria on which this lichen grew, had to be felled for safety reasons.
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A woman was hit over the head with a brick and then raped on a cyclepath in Cumbria last night.
News round-up
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Joan Amelia Capp, for charitable serv, Bootle Refugee Aid UK and to the commty in Bootle, Cumbria.
New Year honours: the full list
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Cumbria team manager Roger Hackney said he felt the county championship was being downgraded.
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A Cumbria Tourist Board survey showed that 59 percent of the visitors mentioned the scenery as the main attraction of the area.
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Recalling the Cumbrian floods, the pair said recently: "We are both in total agreement - the rain that fell that night was as ferocious and as scary as any monsoon we'd ever encountered in the Himalayas.
News round-up
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He wrote several verses in their honour, and even requested that after his death a lesser celandine should be carved on his memorial plaque at the church of St Oswald in the Cumbrian village of Grasmere.
The power of spring flowers
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He added the team investigating the Cumbria accident had been informed about it and other runaway train cases.
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As one of only two consultants for the whole of west Cumbria, he travelled far and wide to outpatient clinics and did domiciliary visits all over the western Lake District.
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For a documentary-maker, that must have been like going potholing in Cumbria and stumbling on Tutankhamen's tomb.
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The stories of this wholesale destruction from farming folk in Cumbria once again illustrates the affinity between man, animals and land.
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Despite Cumbria Wildlife Trust creating just the right conditions for natterjacks at Eskmeals, there are many animals happy to take the bite-sized toad for their dinner.
